Nathaniel Dorsky Movies
- 2012
April
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Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever...
- 2016
Lux Perpetua I
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A personal travel film shot in Oaxaca and then in France and Italy.
- 2016
The Dreamer
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This year our mid-summer’s night was adorned with a glorious full moon. The weeks and days preceding the solstice were magically alive with...
- 2016
Lux Perpetua II
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“For most of my life, my films have been the marriage of external circumstances as seen through the needs of my own psyche. There is no other...
- 2014
Avraham
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"In most of my films I have had the burden of adding a title afterwards. Sometimes the word or words would come automatically, but more often with...
- 2016
Death of a Poet
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A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria,...
- 2020
William
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William Brown, the son of my dear friend, Owsley Brown, is majoring in acting at the University of Southern California. During the lock down we...
- 2015
Autumn
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Autumn, photographed during the last months of the drought year, 2015, is a stately, but intimate, seasonal tome, a celebration of the poignancy and...
- 1987
Alaya
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Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the emulsions. The viewer is the star.
- 2017
Elohim
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Light in the gardens of the San Francisco Arboretum, photographed in early spring. Elohim are divine beings, the energy of light as creation.
- 2013
Summer
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Summer in San Francisco is a dry and rainless season. The film, Summer, although photographed during this period of time, is not so much a...
- 1996
Triste
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Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the...
- 2013
Spring
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Nathaniel Dorsky's Spring conjures an abundant return of light and a retreat into nature so dense and rich that the film itself becomes a sort of...
- 2023
O Death
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In the spirit of the times and my own growing older, a brief tip of the hat… (Nathaniel Dorsky)
- 2021
Terce
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Terce is the sixth film made during the Covid crises… the yellow greens of spring at last… the beginning of a greater relaxation.
- 2020
Temple Sleep
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"Temple Sleep was photographed and edited during the initial Virus lockdown. The fly casting pools in Golden Gate Park became a mind healing place...
- 2023
Pavane
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How often and varied we come upon ourselves in this brief life. This film of early spring is a second made in collaboration with Jacob, a young...
- 2013
Song
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Shot in San Francisco from autumn of last year through the winter solstice, Nathaniel Dorsky's Song evinces a cool, mysterious tone as it captures...
- 2023
Place d'or
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Autumn lake in San Francisco.
- 1987
17 Reasons Why
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17 Reasons Why was photographed with a variety of semi-ancient regular 8 cameras and is projected unslit as 16mm. The four image format gives a look...